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The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity--it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can.
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The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity- it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love, that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.
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The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity - it's envy.
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life
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Love is a house with an unshakable foundation and an indestructible roof.
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The truth of life is that Brahman is no different from atman, the spiritual force within us, what you might call the soul.
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Time is an illusion that only makes us pant. I survived because I forgot even the very notion of time.
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Japanese-owned cargo ship Tsimtsum, flying Panamanian flag, sank July 2nd, 1977, in Pacific, four days out of Manila. Am in lifeboat. Pi Patel my name. Have some food, some water, but Bengal tiger a serious problem. Please advise family in Winnepeg, Canada. Any help very much appreciated. Thank you.
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To chose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation.
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The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.
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I wept heartily over this poor little deceased soul. It was the first sentient being I had ever killed. I was now a killer. I was now as guilty as Cain. I was sixteen years old, a harmless boy, bookish and religious, and now I had blood on my hands. It's a terrible burden to carry. All sentient life is sacred.
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The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart. Meanwhile, the lot of widows and homeless children is very hard, and it is to their defense, not God's, that the self-righteous should rush.
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morality
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I challenge anyone to understand Islam, its spirit, and not to love it. It is a beautiful religion of brotherhood and devotion. The mosque was truly an open construction, to God and to breeze. We sat cross-legged listening to the imam until the time came to pray. Then the random pattern of sitters disappeared as we stood and arranged ourselves shoulder to shoulder in rows, every space ahead being filled by someone from behind until eve..
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mjdw~ l`ql dh yrtshrd brkr , ? 'wZyfth lwHyd@ tdbyr l'mwr l`mly@ fHsb ? t'myn lT`m wlthyb wlm'w~ lmdh l yqdm l`ql 'jwb@ 'kbr ? wlmdh l'sy'l@ lty nTrHh tfwq l'jwb@ dy'man lmdh lshbk@ kbyr@ dh knt l'smk qlyl@ l~ hdh lHd ?
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mind-power
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lyk 'n tjry t`dylt dh m knt tryd lnjh. lkthyr ySbH msthlkan, tHSl `l~ s`dtk Hyth ymkn. tSl l~ nqTh tkwn fyh fy q` ljHym, w m` dhlk tjlsh mtktfan w btsmh t`lw wjhk, sh`ran 'nk 'kthr lns HZan `l~ wjh lbsyTh. lmdh? l'n thm@ smkh SGyrh myth `nd qdmyk.
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In my experience, a castaway's worst mistake is to hope too much and to do too little.
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Without a driver this bus is lost. Our lives are over. Come aboard if your destination is oblivion - it should be our next stop. We can sit together. You can have the window seat, if you want. But it's a sad view.
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I am magical: I can bleed for five days and not die.
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Only death consistently excites your emotions, whether contemplating when life is safe and stale, or fleeing it when life is threatened and precious
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emotions
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The three-toed sloth lives a peaceful, vegetarian life in perfect harmony with its environment. A good-natured smile is forever on its lips...I have seen that smile with my own eyes. I am not one given to projecting human traits and emotions onto animals, but many a time during that month in Brazil, looking up at a sloth in repose, I felt I was in the presence of upside-down yogis deep in meditation or hermits deep in prayer, wise beings wh..
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science
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There's no boot." No boot?" No." That makes me sad." I ate it." You ate the boot?" Yes." Was it good?" No. Were the cigarettes good?" No. I couldn't finish them." I couldn't finish the boot."
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It was my first clue that atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them--and then they leap. I'll be honest about it. It is not atheists who get stuck in my craw, but agnostics. Doubt is useful for a while....But we must move on. To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportat..
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You may not believe in life, but I don't believe in death. ... The reason death sticks so closely to life isn't biological necessity--it's envy. Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is but the passing shadow of a cloud.
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life
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Colonialism is a terrible bane for a people upon whom it is imposed, but a blessing for a language. English's drive to exploit the new and the alien, its zeal in robbing words from other languages, its incapacity to feel qualms over the matter, its museum-size overabundance of vocabulary, it shoulder-shrug approach to spelling, its don't-worry-be-happy concern for grammar--the result was a language whose colour and wealth Henry loved.
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We are cynical about our own species, but less so about animals, especially wild ones. We might not shelter them from habitat destruction, but we do tend to shelter them from excessive irony.
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fear...is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life...you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.
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We must do the same with death in our lives: resolve it, give it meaning, put it into context, however hard that might be.
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That's the nature of grief: It's a creature with many arms but few legs, and it staggers about, searching for support.
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Loneliness comes up to him like a sniffing dog. It circles him insistently. He waves it away, but it refuses to leave him alone.
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ymkn 'n y`td lmr `l~ 'y shy, bm fy dhlk lqtl.
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I tell you, to be drunk on alcohol is disgraceful, but to be drunk on water is noble and ecstatic.
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I'll tell you, that's one thing I hate about my nickname, the way the number runs on forever. It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.
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Hijau adalah warna yang indah. Warna Islam. Warna kesukaanku.
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Cinta sulit dipercaya, tanyakan pada siapapun yang sedang jatuh cinta. Kehidupan ini juga sulit dipercaya, tanyakan pada ilmuwan manapun. Tuhan juga sulit dipercaya, tanyakan pada siapapun yang memercayainya. Kenapa Anda tidak menerima hal-hal yang sulit dipercaya?
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hidup
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kepercayaan
kehidupan
percaya
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To prosper, a zoo needs parliamentary government, democratic elections, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of association, rule of law and everything else enshrined in India's Constitution. Impossible to enjoy the animals otherwise. Long-term, bad politics is bad for business.
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I'm afraid the popularity of the domestic cat would drop very quickly if little kitty could roar its displeasure.
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There are always those who take it upon themselves to defend God, as if Ultimate Reality, as if the sustaining frame of existence, were something weak and helpless.
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Yann Martel |
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There are many examples of animals coming to surprising living arrangements...where an animal takes a human being or another animal to be one of it's kind.
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he found it where he should have looked first, on the Internet, which is a net indeed, one that can be cast further than the eye can see and be retrieved no matter how heavy the hall, its magical mesh never breaking under the strain but always bringing in the most amazing catch.
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You may be astonished that in such a short period of time I could go from weeping over the muffled killing of a flying fish to gleefully bludgeoning to death a dorado. I could explain it by arguing that profiting from a pitiful flying fish's navigational mistake made me shy and sorrowful, while the excitement of actively capturing a great dorado made me sanguinary and self-assured. But in point of fact the explanation lies elsewhere. It is ..
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Remember that your days on this earth are counted and you might as well make the best of those you have left.
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life-lessons
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For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.
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good
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I blinked deliberately, expecting my eyelids to act like lumberjacks. But the trees would not fall.
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pi
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There are no grounds for going beyond a scientific explanation of reality and no sound reason for believing anything but our sense experience. A clear intellect, close attention to detail and a little scientific knowledge will expose religion as superstitious bosh. God does not exist. -- Why tolerate darkness? Everything is here and clear, if only we look carefully.
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If you stumble at mere believability, what are you living for? Isn't love hard to believe? Don't you bully me with your politeness! Love is hard to believe, ask any lover. Life is hard to believe, ask any scientist. God is hard to believe, ask any believer. What is your problem with hard to believe?
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faith
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